Category: media

“There is a vast hunger for challenging, layered, complex, innovative drama that grips, tests and provokes an audience. In Canada in the past 15 years we have made almost diddly-squat in that arena.”

“Lady Tremaine’s abuse of Cinderella is not the result, her performance makes clear, of some sui generis malevolence; it is instead the direct result of the cruelties her own life has heaped upon her. And those, in turn, are the direct result of her being a woman.”

“A source in law enforcement said information uncovered in the program played a role in the investigation. On Saturday, Durst was arrested in New Orleans on a murder warrant related to Berman’s slaying.”

“FYI: ‘Jeopardy’ doesn’t pay for anything; you even pay for your own transportation and lodging in L.A. if you’re taping an episode.”

“The revelation caused a social media storm with some politicians saying it had been a missed opportunity to showcase Wales and attract visitors.”

“It says something about Russia’s messy, fitful return to dictatorship that, in the week after the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the best performing movie in the country, beating out Focus and Cinderella this past weekend, was a thriller whose villain works deep within the Russian government.”

“Global box-office revenue climbed to $36.4 billion, according to an annual report Wednesday from the Motion Picture Assn. of America. And much of the growth came from one country: China. The world’s most populous nation saw its box-office revenue jump 34% to a staggering $4.8 billion last year, making it the first foreign market to cross the $4-billion threshold.”

The award-winning rapper Shad – né Shadrach Kabango – was the broadcaster’s choice to anchor the flagship culture show on CBC Radio One, prevailing over roughly a dozen guest hosts who did stints on the program following Ghomeshi’s firing over accusations of sexual harassment and battery.

“When it went looking for the next host for Q, the CBC was a lot like someone badly burned by their last boyfriend … [it] contorted itself to appear to avoid the pitfalls that made the last relationship tank. … So there’s little surprise that the result is what happens in hastily engineered rebound relationships.”

“In Shad, CBC has found an outsider, badly needed, given the multiple reports of a toxic work environment within the Mother Corp. … He’s also an artist who is essentially Canadian, a Kenyan-born immigrant who has rapped nimbly and sagely about Aboriginal issues, love and feminism, among other things.”